Chengdu–Kunming Railway

The Chengdu - Kunming Railway ( Chinese成昆 铁路, Pinyin Cheng -kun Tielu, english Chengdu - Kunming Railway) is a railway line, the Chengdu and Kunming, the two main cities of southwest China's Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, together. It is one of the main transport links of Southwest China.

Their total length is about 1100 km. It was built in the years 1958 to 1970. The route runs through the territory of the Hengduan Shan mountains. Crossing the railway and others, the great rivers of Min Jiang, Qingyi Jiang, Dadu and Jinsha Jiang He (Chang Jiang).

Important stations on their route are Chengdu, Pengshan, Jiajiang, Emei, Ebian, ganluo, Xide, Xichang, Dechang, Miyi and Panzhihua in Sichuan Province and Yuanmou, Lufeng, Anning and Kunming in Yunnan province.

In the north there are the links:

• Bao -cheng Railway宝 成 铁路( Baoji - Chengdu)
• Cheng- Yu Railway成渝 铁路(Chengdu - Chongqing)

In the south there are the links:

• Gui -kun Railway贵 昆 铁路(Guiyang - Kunming)
• Kun -He -Bahn昆 河 铁路(Kunming - Hekou )